It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).


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Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard en...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or via...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your pa...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on ...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
Sometimes if you're wanting to look just a little bit taller, then you want to dress with just m...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
(It's) like I've got a shotgun in my mouth, with my finger on the trigger, and I like the taste of g...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle tran...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the ...
ROBERT M. GATES
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the trut...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for se...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puz...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jero...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you kno...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging ar...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole fami...
ROBERT M. MACIVER
Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the star...
ROBERT M. DRAKE
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole famil...
ROBERT M. MACIVER
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real ...
HENRY M. ROBERT
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
If you run from technology, it will chase you.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey w...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
ROBERT M. GATES
The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.
ROBERT M. DRAKE
Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a...
ROBERT M. GATES
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
ROBERT M. GATES
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alum...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinctio...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a n...
ROBERT M. GATES
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unset...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of a...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
ROBERT M. GATES
I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or ...
ROBERT M. GATES
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts�...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
ROBERT M. HAMILTON
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for see...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war...
ROBERT M. GATES
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true,...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been dir...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS
Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Ira...
ROBERT M. GATES
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
I have a Disability yes thats true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly diffe...
ROBERT M. HENSEL
Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limit...
ROBERT M. HENSEL
We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person ...
ROBERT M. HENSEL
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitroge...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away....
ROBERT M. PIRSIG
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I thin...
ROBERT M. GATES
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delus...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG